Archive for September 26th, 2012

This is something I missed the most from the Paris/Versailles region where I lived and worked for almost 10 years. The sports bars, here in Brittany they are a lot more subdue and fewer.

I just read an article in Le Figaro about them and decided why not give them a bit of advertising ,its really very British but all do partake ::)

I have written on some of them in my blog previously but these are some new joints that are worth checking them out.

Liverpool. You can come acroos at it folks following this club, call Rush Bar , you will see the shirt colors there even when there is no match ; they even have a certificate on a frame on the wall to prove it. location : 32, rue Saint-Sébastien (75011).Tél. +33 (0) 1 43 57 32 04. A sport bars webpage http://www.allomatch.com/sport-bar/paris/rush-bar.html

Real Madrid. Another place to see my team, and great it is of course ::) You see it at Pirada, 7, rue de Lappe (75001).Tél. +33 (0) 1 47 00 73 61.www.pirada.com

Where to play it, yes indeed there are fields in Paris.

The five on five side game of course; you can use the fields for an hour, and all awaits the opening of the Elite 5 Soccer in about 10 more days at two minutes from La Défense with a bonus Jacuzzi. location: 46, rue des Courrières, Nanterre (92). Tél. +33 (0) 6 52 80 43 23. http://www.elite5soccer.com/index1.php

Open since June, the Le Five Paris is the only place in inner Paris, it is a prestigious address with 12 fields that you can even video the games at32, rue Moussorgski (75018). Tél. +33 (0) 1 48 40 24 06. www.lefive.fr

And lets not forget UrbanFootball, one of the first firms that created these centers in the Paris region. www.urbanfootball.fr

The younger crowd has them too:

At the jardin des Tuileries, the students from the school of Notre-Dame de Saint-Roch, have three shops of football/soccer by age brackets every wednesday afternoon from 12h30 to 17h. Open to kids from outside the school as well. Cost is 285 € per year at 37, rue Saint-Roch (75001). Tél. +33 (0) 1 42 61 21 82.www.ecolesaintroch.fr

The boutique NSH has a small selection of shirts of leyends like the famous Johnny Rep of Saint-Étienne in the years 1980 (60 €).location 2, bd Saint-Martin (75010).Tél.+33 (0) 1 40 18 10 38.www.nshfootball.fr

More references can be found in the webpage of the Les Voyages en Ballon, that also, organise an annual football «rétro-vintage» at Parc du Tremblay.www.lveb.net

And face with the demand the makers of the round ball have duplications of the best shirts of footballers such as the «Authentic» (120 €) of the PSG and the team of France are available at the main store Nike at 67, avenue des Champs-Élysées (75008). Tél. +33 (0) 1 42 25 93 80. www.nikeparis.net